Contact

Please send inquiries, submissions, and feedback to halifaxroyalmajesty@gmail.com.

Submissions from all are welcome: we publish short fiction, poetry, paintings, photographs, drawings, collages, recipes and the like. Please look through the back-issues on the home page for more of a sense of the work that we are interested in.

A brief artist biography or supplementary information is welcome but not necessary. Some of our contributors choose to publish anonymously. There is no limit to submissions, and unused material is kept on file for consideration in future issues. Unfortunately, we are not currently in a position to pay anyone for their work. All material published remains the intellectual property of the artist; in publishing this artwork and literature, Her Royal Majesty is exhibiting the work to the public as if on loan.

Tentative upcoming themes include: monsters, light, and the political imagination.

The next issue is on the theme of Magic, and the submissions deadline is April 2nd, 2010.

The etymology of magic
magiclate 14c., "art of influencing events and producing marvels," from O.Fr. magique, from L. magice "sorcery, magic," from Gk. magike (presumably with tekhne "art")…from magos "one of the members of the learned and priestly class," from O.Pers. magush, possibly from PIE *magh- "to be able, to have power" (see machine). Displaced O.E. wiccecræft (see witch); also drycræft, from dry "magician," from Ir. drui "priest, magician" (see druid). Transferred sense of "legerdemain, optical illusion, etc." is from 1811.

fetish
1610s, fatisso, from Port. fetiço "charm, sorcery," originally feitiço "made artfully, artificial," from L. facticius "made by art," from facere "to make" (see factitious). L. facticius in Sp. has become hechizo "magic, witchcraft, sorcery.

medicine
Indian medicine-man "shaman" is first attested 1801, from Amer. Indian adoption of the word in sense of "magical influence."

glamor
or glamour, 1720, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamor), a variant of Scot. gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," alteration of English grammar (q.v.) with a medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning."